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sibling
noun
a
brother
or
sister
;
a
person
who
shares
the
same
parents
with
another
•
Mia
enjoys
reading
bedtime
stories
to
her
little
sibling
.
Mia
enjoys
reading
bedtime
stories
to
her
little
sibling
.
•
Both
siblings
competed
in
the
school
science
fair
with
different
projects
.
Both
siblings
competed
in
the
school
science
fair
with
different
projects
.
Mid-19th
century
:
formed
from
Old
English
‘
sib
’
meaning
‘
kinship
’
plus
the
diminutive
suffix
‘
-ling
’,
originally
used
in
legal
contexts
for
relatives
before
becoming
a
general
term
for
brothers
and
sisters
.
noun
an
item
,
element
,
or
node
that
has
the
same
immediate
parent
as
another
within
a
structure
,
such
as
a
computer
directory
,
data
tree
,
or
classification
•
In
the
directory
,
the
'images'
folder
is
a
sibling
of
the
'documents'
folder
under
the
root
.
In
the
directory
,
the
'images'
folder
is
a
sibling
of
the
'documents'
folder
under
the
root
.
•
These
two
HTML
divs
act
as
siblings
inside
the
main
container
.
These
two
HTML
divs
act
as
siblings
inside
the
main
container
.
Technical
use
extended
from
the
family
sense
in
the
late
20th
century
as
computer
scientists
borrowed
family
tree
imagery
to
describe
hierarchical
data
structures
.
